The Humanities Institute
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program Fellows 2021-2022

• CHRISTINA AYSON PLANK

  History of Art and Visual Culture

  “Counter-framing the Nation: Art and Visual Culture of the Filipino Labor Diaspora”

   

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  BREE BOOTH

  Latin American and Latino Studies

  “Tracing Queerness Through the Atlantic”

   

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  PHILIP CONKLIN

  History of Consciousness

  “Visionary Politics: Popular Religious Movements in the Colonial Philippines”

   

• KSENIA FIRSOVA

  Film and Digital Media

  “Robocops and Prison Spaceships: Carceral Futurism in American Film and Television”

   

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  ANA FLECHA

  Latin American and Latino Studies

  “The Santo Daime Bailado as Racialized and Gendered Psychedelic Religious Choreography”

   

• MICHELAINA JOHNSON

  Environmental Studies

  “Towards Equitable Groundwater Governance: A Case Study of California’s Most Critically Overdrafted Coastal Basin”

   

• MARILIA KAISAR

  Film and Digital Media

  “When Bodies and Algorithms Meet”

   

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  ALEXYSS MCCLELLAN-UFUGUSUKU

  History

  “Unmari kara Shimanchu, itsui madei Bichidannu: Ryukyuan Indigeneity and its Implications for Geopolitical Protocol, 1945-2019”

   

• ROWAN POWELL

  Politics

  “Radical Land Reform and Real Estate at St George’s Hill: A Case Study In and Against Colonial Property”

   

• CATHERINE RIES

  History of Art and Visual Culture

  “Facets of the Feminine: Javanese Portraits of Women, Material Culture, and Islam”

   

• JOSHUA TAN

  History

  “Migrants and Missionaries: Chinese Diaspora, Religion, and the Cold War”

   

• JONATHAN VAN HARMELEN

  History

  “Legislating Injustice: Congress and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans”